The withdrawal and strengthening of the AGC-Clan del Golfo and the ELN could increase individual and collective displacements, confinements, mobility restrictions, forced recruitment, massacres, among other events that violate human rights.
The Ombudsman’s Office formulated a series of recommendations so that, with the assistance of government institutions, the risk of violations of the rights to life, liberty and integrity and infractions of international humanitarian law can be eliminated.
“At high risk are the inhabitants of Juradó, Bahía Solano and Nuquí, in the North Pacific subregion of the department of Chocó, due to the withdrawal and strengthening of the Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia and the ELN guerrillas, illegal armed groups that could increase displacement. individual and mass crimes, confinements, restrictions on mobility, threats, forced recruitment of girls, boys and adolescents, selective homicides and massacres, gender-based violence and human trafficking,” warns the Ombudsman, Carlos Camargo Assis.
In Early Warning 009 of 2024, which has just been issued by the human rights entity, it is specified that there are currently warlike confrontations in the territory, which has led to displacements and confinements of communities, restrictions on daily activities , among others, facts that were previously and promptly warned by the Ombudsman’s Office through its Early Warning System (SAT).
“There are violations of the worldviews of ethnic groups, their practices and customs, which worsens the humanitarian crisis in the territories of black, Afro-Colombian and indigenous communities,” says Camargo Assis.
The population faces serious risks due to the security and public order crisis generated by the restrictions imposed by the Cimarrón War Front of the ELN, as well as by the clashes between that subversive faction and the Pacific Block of the Gaitanista Self-Defense Forces of Colombia (AGC). -Clan del Golfo) in border territory with Panama, jurisdiction of Juradó.
“The geographical position of the municipalities of Bahía Solano, Nuquí and Juradó is privileged due to its access to the Pacific Ocean and its communication with the neighboring country of Panama; Additionally, along the ancestral roads that connect with some populations that belong to the Darién and Atrato subregions. It is in these areas that armed groups move outside the law, and they do so to traffic weapons from Panama, smuggle migrants, as well as to traffic cocaine, market it and ship it to Pacific markets,” explains the Ombudsman. Town.
In addition to the threats due to the alteration of public order, says the Ombudsman, “the communities of these three municipalities also have problems of a structural nature, related to the little or no institutional presence in a large part of their territories, which is reflected in the lack of public home services, such as drinking water, sewage and electricity, poor health care, little investment in education, limited housing supply and precarious social investment.”
Alert 009 of the present validity has a humanitarian nature and a perspective of rights and human security, as well as the purpose of government entities and competent authorities promoting the adoption of prevention, care and protection measures for the community.
“That is why we send a series of recommendations, so that both the level of risk of violations of the rights to life, liberty and integrity and violations of international humanitarian law are contained, which impact the inhabitants of the municipal capitals and rural areas of Juradó, Bahía Solano and Nuquí,” concluded Camargo Assis.
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